JMWW is open for submissions September 1st-15th. We are reading all genres (except for Blended & Beyond) this month.

To fade is to renew

Open now! Submit to JMWW by August 15th. All categories (except for Poetry) are open, but some have limited entries.

I don’t think instructors talk enough about the emotional toll it takes, how hard it is to juggle and hold up all those voices on the table. -- Olga Katsovskiy

“It’s part of your job, as a poet, to write out of experience. To name what matters to you. You’ve only got one life to draw on.”

Widen your reading circle

Revision is not the same as editing. That’s not to say every finished work needs to be gutted to the studs, but we must be willing to look at our own work objectively for it to be good.

“I seldom know where I’m headed, but if the story is meant to be, you cross over to the other side—you’re inside it, and there’s an engine.”

Who says you have to take a week off work and pay an exorbitant amount of money to fly somewhere for a literary experience?

I lie because I don’t want my insurance rates to go up, because he has my family history right in front of him where it says both my parents died of lung cancer. Even if he’s too polite to say it, …

I forgot. I tucked it into a book, and forgot, and put it on the table so I'd see it, and forgot, and sent a different card for her birthday and forgot, and meant to send it before Christmas and forgo...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: JMWW Editorial Team Zoom Reading. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Welcome to Chill Subs' 3rd annual Community Favorites Best Lit Mag Awards! Vote for your favorite literary magazines and celebrate the publications that make our community thrive.

In this half-day session, writers will discover how keeping a commonplace book can elevate their writing practice.

"How could a 21-year-old publish two books? Surely that’s not enough time to know what you’re doing." -- McKenna Graf

We come to the bend in the river that I promised would look like an alien landscape and you say it looks more like the bones of a massive dinosaur, being slowly revealed by the eroding earth. Somethin...